It is said that when people are told they are going to die, they see things differently. That was certainly the case with me. I came out of the hospital and truly saw how beautiful the world was for the first time. How blue the sky, how green the grass. Everything looked more than real. To me, it still does. Hyper-real.

May 28, 2015

Song thrush

There is nothing as joyful as the sound of bird song, and the song thrush is one of our finest singers. A gardener once told me that it was alright for him to use slug pellets because he didn’t have any thrushes in his garden. I rather thought that he didn’t have any thrushes because he used slug pellets…